The attitude-adjustment derby:Can hot-button topics be discussed rationally, or have media and the blogosphere dragged everybody into an unending screaming match?
I've been having a chat this morning with a lad who seems upset about a video making its way around the net of a priest singing a personalized version of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' to a newly married couple. In his first comment he launches off with profanity as he decried the priest's singing as an 'abuse of the liturgy'. When I asked him if he didn't think that he was vitiating his argument about a liturgical abuse by using abusive language, he replied that the use of profanity is indeed appropriate when condemning the priest for singing the song. I guess comprehending irony is not his strong suit.
Any way, this article from today's NCR blog seems to hit the same themes I was trying to raise with him. Check it out and see if you agree.
The attitude-adjustment derby | National Catholic Reporter
Here's a link as well to the priest's musical gift to the married couple.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-26957527
Any way, this article from today's NCR blog seems to hit the same themes I was trying to raise with him. Check it out and see if you agree.
The attitude-adjustment derby | National Catholic Reporter
Here's a link as well to the priest's musical gift to the married couple.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-26957527
I knew there was going to be at least one off-the-wall-and-out-of-his-mind objector to that incredibly beautiful version of an incredibly beautiful song! But a young objector? I would have thought an older one... What, precisely, was his objection?
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